Because We Need the Laughs
Abe and Phil’s Last Poker Game: Amazon, Google Play, Tubi, Vudu, YouTube
Afternoon Delight: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Tubi, Vudu, YouTube
Annie Hall: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Bananas: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
The Big Fix: Tubi
The Big Lebowski: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Biloxi Blues: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, Vudu, YouTube
Blazing Saddles: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Borat: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Brighton Beach Memoirs: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Broadway Danny Rose: Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube
Come Blow Your Horn: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Diner: Amazon, Cinemax, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Fading Gigolo: Google Play, Tubi, YouTube
The Frisco Kid: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Goodbye, Columbus: Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube
Goodbye New York: Amazon, Sling TV
The Great Dictator: Amazon
Harold and Maude: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Tubi, Vudu, YouTube
The Heartbreak Kid (1972): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vusvJaxKZFo
The Hebrew Hammer: Amazon
I Love You Alice B. Toklas: Amazon. Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Just Tell Me What You Want: Amazon. Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTub
Keeping the Faith: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Keeping Up with the Steins: Amazon. Google Play, HBO Now, iTunes, Vudu, YouTub
The Kominsky Method: Netflix
Liberty Heights: Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTub
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINOBT6cAdU
Lost in Yonkers: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
The Meyerowitz Stories: Netflix
Miami Rhapsody: Amazon, Cinemax, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Mr. Saturday Night: iTunes
My Favorite Year: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Obvious Child: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube
Once in a Lifetime (1932)
Private Benjamin: Amazon, Cinemax, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
The Producers: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
A Serious Man: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube
The Shamrock and the Rose (1928)
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Sleeping with the Fishes: Amazon, Tubi, Vudu
This Is My Life: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
This Is Where I Leave You: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
To Be or Not to Be (1983): Amazon, Cinemax, Hulu, Sling TV, Starz
Wet Hot American Summer: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com